Kallundborg Kirke

Fig. 13. Spor af oprindeligt Vindue. — Remains of an original window. først paa dette Tidspunkt har bestemt at give Portalen Frem« spring i Modsætning til Portalen i søndre Korsarm, der paa det Tidspunkt maa have været færdig. Aarsagen maa være, at man har været ængstelig ved at opføre Taarnet uden den Forstærkning, som Portalfremspringet gav. Da man senere opførte det nordre Taarn, var man klar over Nødvendigheden af Portalfremspringet, og der er da heller ikke i denne Portal noget Tegn paa Famlen ved dens Opførelse. — Ved Genop« førelsen af vestre og nordre Portal har man ladet Granitsoks len fortsætte sig helt ind til Granitkarmen; men det er muligt at dette oprindelig ikke har været Tilfældet, da Soklen ikke er vist paa Høyens Skizze fra 1832 6, og heller ikke paa Arkis tekt Tvedes Restaureringsforslag 7, hvorpaa Portalernes Frems spring er bibeholdt. Paa andre samtidige Teglstenskirker, som Kirkerne i Ringsted, Gumløse i Skaane og Aarhus Domkirke, har Kirkens udvendige Sokkel ikke været fortsat paa de sams tidige Portaler. Selv om Portalen paa Kallundborg Kirkes søndre Korsarm bevisligt har haft Granitsokkel ligesom Kirs kens, hvad der er det naturligste, naar Portalen ikke har Fremspring, maa man derfor vistnok regne med den Muligs hed, at de to andre Portaler ikke har haft profileret Sokkel s. Kirken er, i Modsætning til de fleste af vore romanske Kirs ker, usædvanlig rig paa Vinduer; den har ind til selve Kirkes rummet 31 Vinduer, ret højtsiddende. Af alle disse var kun de tre, der nu vender ind til Sakristiets øvre Stokværk bevaret i deres oprindelige Form, omend forhuggede i Lysningerne; af de øvrige havde adskillige bevaret Dele af det indre Buestik, og det smalle Vindue vest for Vindeltrappen i Midtpartiets appear in Høyen’s sketch from 1832 6, nor in the plans for restoration of the architect, Mr. Tvede 7, in which, however, the projection of the entrance is retained. In other contems porary brick churches, like those in Ringsted and Gumløse, Skaane, and the cathedra! in Aarhus, the socle was never cons tinued to the entrances, even when it was original. Although the entrance in the south transept of Kallundborg Church can be proved to have had a granite socle like the others of the church, which is most natural when the entrance has no projection, it is very probable that the other two entrances have not had profiled socles 8. In contrast to the màjority of Danish Romanesque churches, Kallundborg Church is very rich in windows. In the main body of the church there,are 31 windows, placed quite high. Of these, only the three which open from the upper storey of the sacristy have preserved their original form, though the piercings are somewhat cutsup. Several of the others have retained portions of the interior=arch, while the entire western side of the narrow window west of the winding stairway in the southeast corner of the central section is preserved. Examination showed that the windows were enlarged as early as the Middles Ages, but in most cases the old ma= sonry could furnish information about the width of the win= dows, which has varied somewhat, from 32—44 cm in the opening,—the majority being about 40 cm. The original form of the windows has now been restored everywhere (Fig. 12) and is shown in Pl. IX. The opening lies in the middle of the walhthickness, and is formed by a casement of bricks set on edge, with the arch at the top cut in two bricks placed at an angle to each other, as an impression in the wall from a single window in the east side of the south transept indicated (Fig. 13). The bevel of the sides and archs is quite flat, and on the outside the edge of the bevel is formed of mould-bricks with a profile like a hollow staff, which makes a fine and elegant impression 9. The bevel of the arch was plastered, inside and out to within about 12 cm of the edge of the arch, as is usual in all brick buildings of that time. The bevel of the under part of the window was also plastered. That a plas= tered arch bevel was supposed to produce an esthetic effect, may be seen from the original coloring, for the plaster of the arch was originally whitewashed, with the joints in the visible scheme^arch traced in white, and a red and white scaL loped border in the abutment toward the church (Fig. 14). It would have been an easy matter to allow the bricks of the bevel of the arch to remain visible, the more so, as coloring the bricks could have hidden possible careless work. In spite of the fact that several windows were in a state of preservation at the time of the restoration in 1870, they were then made broader and considerably higher, but placed low (Fig. 6), and only after the last restoration, when their original form was restored, was it possible to see how welhpropors tioned they are and how beautifully they are placed seen both from without and within, and how unusually fine the light effects in the interior of the church now are. It is natural that there are no windows above the en= trances, nor have there ever been any in the two sloping sides toward the west of the west tower. 1 his may indicate 12